Native docker support about nixos-wsl HOT 5 CLOSED

I have experience with this and can take a look

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Difficulty is @nzbr, users would have to compile their own WSL2 kernel and modify/create a .wslconfig file to point and use the kernel with nftables modules in. Happy to provide instructions but it's not for the faint of heart. From my understanding we can't change the kernel in the NixOS distro because WSL provides the kernel itself.

Happy to add a write up/README.md PR, what's your thoughts?

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I have activated the repos wiki. You should be able to put a page there now
Another option (although I don't know if it's feasible) would be to somehow override the change that causes docker to break in NixOS 21.11. It should be possible somehow, given that it worked in 20.09

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The difference is systemd v249 has switched to nftables. You can add --iptables=false (I think, from memory!) to get the docker service to start inside NixOS WSL but you then have no container networking which isn't very fun!

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This fixes it for me:

  nixpkgs.overlays = [
      (self: super: {
        docker = super.docker.override { iptables = pkgs.iptables-legacy; };
      })
    ];

No modified kernel required

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